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Letters Patent No. 61,950, datediFebruary 12, 1867.

COMBINATION 0F STAMP-HOLDER AND INKSTAND.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, PIIILANDER PERRY, of Charlestown, Middlesex county, State ot'Y Massachusetts, and JosnUA Bnoonaof Newton, Middlesex county, same State, have invented a new and improvedVStamp-Holder and Combination Inlrstand; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of our invention consists in a new device for holding postage and other stamps, a new an improved pen-wiper, :1nd in a combination with an inkstand of several usefuldeviccs hereinafter more particularly mentioned. And in the drawings annexed- Figure 1 is a front view of our invention.

Figure `2 is a view from the top Figure 3 is a vertical section, hereinafter moreparticularly explained.

In the drawings annexed, B B B, figs. 1 and 2, is a platform, (which is hollow on the under side,) having a projection in front with three steps C C C, tigs. 1 and 2. These steps are seen, iig. 2, on three sides ofthe projection, and are hollowed on the upper side. (See the dotted lines in fig. 1.) The use of these hollowed cavitiesis to hold a pen or pencil. D D, (dotted lines,) fig. 1, is a vessel or well, (cast with the platform,),and has a cover,

E, figs. 1` and 2, and contains an ink vessel or bottle, F F, seen in dotted lines in iig. 41. Gr, iig. 2, and G G,

(dotted lines,) tig. 1, is another well, (cast with the platform,) and contains a roller, H, igs. 1 and 2, covered with clotln The use of this roller is to wet the fingers (thewell being partly filled with water) to facilitate the removal of the stamps hereinafter mentioned. 1 1, tig. 1, is a vessel, of shape as seen in the dotted lines in fig. l

1, and has a cover, .Litige 1 and 2. This cover J is concave above, (see dotted lines in fig. 1,) and has at its centre an aperture, K, fig. 2. The use of this vessel is to hold mucilage placed there on the removal of the cover J, and taken therefrom by a brush, or other convenient method, through the aperture K L L, fignl; and L, g. 2, is a square well, (cast with the platform,) and Vhas a circular aperture, M, fig. 2, `at its bottom. The use of this well is to hold a sand-box. N, figs. 1 and 2, is an'afenbox, fitting in an aperture in the platform, and removable at pleasure. O, figs. 1 and 2, is the stamp-holder, being an oblong box, placed at the back side of the platform, and on the top of it, and having at its upper side, in its cover, ve semicircular apertures, seen in-g. 2. These apertures are the entrances to five separate chambers, seen in iig. 3, which is a vertical section of the stamp-box at the line A A of fig. 2. Fitting in these apertures, respectively, are v'e blocks of wood, metal', or other substance, marked OX O O O OX, fig. These blocks, called the s'tamp-deliverers, have, under e'nch of them, a spring. The use of this arrangement is, that when the stamps are placed above the stamp-deliverers, as fast as one or more stamps is extracted through the aperture above, the stamp-deliverers, being held up by their springs, press np the remainder of the stamps, and retain them tightly, but ready for delivery, close to the tops oi' the respective chambers at the apertures. P l?, igs. 1, 2, and 3, are grooves,

. covered with cloth or other substance, arranged in the form of steps, atach end 0f the stamp-box. The use of this arrangement is to serve the purpose of stationary pen-wipers. Q Q, iig. 1, are two pillars rising perpendicnlarly from the top oi' the stamp-box, and connected atitheir tops by a. bar or bridge, QX, figs. 1 and 2. These two pillars'have each fastened to their inner end sides (see fig. 1)`three horizonal projections, R R R R R R, g. 1, so arranged, as respects a horizontal section, as that a card may be slipped past `and in front of the bridge or bar QX, and, being pressed down perpendicularly, will leave the upper and under projections R R R R onthe the front of the card, while the middle projections R R will be left behind the card. S, figs. 1 and 2, is a rib, rising a little distance from the top of' the stamp-box orl holder, and when the card above referred to `is pressed,

down in its appropriate place, this rib S is left in front of it. The use of this arrangement of pillars, bridge i QX, projections, and rib, is to hold a card,"bearing a calendar, always ready for reference; and we call this part of our invcn tion the calendar stand. i

And what we claim herein is of our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. We claim the stamp-holder O, having openingsinthe cover, with chambers, containing each a plunger, OX, Ste., used with or withoutsprings, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

:2. We claim, in connection with a. stamp-holder, the well G G. with n rotating cylinder,`I-I, thereon, constructed'substantially as and used for the purpose described.

olive claim the combination of the 'mucilage pot I I and the sand-box L L with one inkstnnd, substantially as described.

4. We claim the grooved steps, C C C for holding pens :tud pencils, in combination with nin inkstand,

constructed and used substantially as described.

5. We clztini the corrugated pen-Wiper, substantially as deseribed.v 6. We claim the two standards Q Q, with the ears R, the., ittcd to receive a calendar, wheinused in coinbinntion with an inkstztud, sind constructed substantially :ts described. d

7. We claim the combination of the stamp-holder, ngerwetter, inucilage pot, sand-box, pen-rack, and calendar-stand, with an inkstnnd, all constructed substztutiztllyvzts shown, and used :ts described.

PHILANDER PERRY, JOSHUA BROOKS. Witnesses:

LEMUEL P. JENKS,' GEO. M. MARTIN. 

